richardatlarge

My front page metaphor: You’re taking off in a plane, down the runway If you get clicks / comments you get lift Not enough of them, you run out of time, hit the end of the runway- crash and burn …

A lot of water has gone under the bridge since Szasz wrote this book. But it has stood the test of time in that the 'illness' of mental illness still remains a metaphor to biological illness…

an example of the complexity of dopamine: a study allowed animals to self-administer cocaine. Other animals were administered the drug in the brain on the same schedule but without 'choosing'…

We did a spoof ad for a psychiatry magazine when I was at Adbusters: https://static.substack.com/p/now-available …

The bizarre and entirely unlikely coincidence that the lab and the wet market were in the same city will make this impossible to solve. If it was one or the other it would be easy. It’s JFK all over a…

Consider writing for Wikipedia

A tiny bit off topic... but I semi-randomly look up W articles on a topic that comes to mind out of the blue. I’ve found great stuff this way. One that comes to mind is the page on the band Bachman Tu…

Not sure about this one Quote: Laissez Faire Capitalism: We know this page is needed, but we can't force anyone to make it. Shouldn’t it be that there’s no profit in making one I like it better b…

When cool heads prevail— A great story ... on what can be achieved with experienced leadership, even with only semi-competent assistance in the flight cabin

I bought an iPod, needed to fix it, did that, then fixed Apple stuff for another dozen years as a business. I miss the old Apple, which reflected a time when someone really was thinking different, a s…

Yes, there was a time in my life decades ago in Montana when going to Sizzler was the top dinner option there was. More than anything else, I remember going through the door and taking in the scents. …

A deeper issue that would be more interesting to see in court: apple’s use of coded parts that if removed make the phone inoperable. Who wants something that, after warranty, you can’t repair. Most of…

Once you use concepts of origins and beginnings you can never escape the paradox of a) what existed before the beginning and b) what’s the source of all matter to begin with; a logical argument My pe…

I don’t believe in a free Internet because I don’t think a good Internet can be free. I wish I could subscribe to Instagram if it meant all the crap ads would disappear. But I also don’t respect firew…

It’s a bad habit to show your frustration for the customers you don’t have in the store to the potential customers you do have, so it’s poor behaviour but it can also be understandable

At first, and not very bright, I thought this would be a link to an hours earlier version of itself, which would be repeated every hour until it want on infinitely, looping and looping

My mother always told me, don’t point a gun at someone until and unless you want to kill them.

Quote from #5: “Watching a plant return from the dead to push out fresh, new growth can be very rewarding, but sometimes you have to count your losses. It’s part of the process, just try to learn from…

Watching fake detectives work in crime shows on TV, or in novels, I often keep track of what’s uncovered by brilliance and what just arrives at their door by happenstance or basic police work by other…

Reminds me of Japan, but I see this contrast on Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_ping Unlike the hikikomori in Japan (who are socially withdrawn), these young Chin…

There is individual stupidity but there is also species stupidity. I’ve always felt that humans, living according to culture instead of nature (to oversimplify), are intelligent as individuals but mor…

Yes I was taken by his idea that the idiot has an armour made of a potentially massive social network. It gives you perspective of what you’re really dealing with and the difficulty of the job ahead

I think this is exactly right. To reduce love to dopamine says it all. No experience lacks a neurochemical underpinning so any correlation needs further evidence of causation. One interesting animal s…